"Writing about yourself is a funny business...But in a project like
this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind.
In these pages, I've tried to do this." -Bruce Springsteen, from
the pages of Born to Run In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E
Street Band performed at the Super Bowl's halftime show. The
experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about
it. That's how this extraordinary autobiography began. Over the
past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself
to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same
honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. He describes
growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry,
danger, and darkness that fueled his imagination, leading up to the
moment he refers to as "The Big Bang": seeing Elvis Presley's debut
on The Ed Sullivan Show. He vividly recounts his relentless drive
to become a musician, his early days as a bar band king in Asbury
Park, and the rise of the E Street Band. With disarming candor, he
also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles
that inspired his best work, and shows us why the song "Born to
Run" reveals more than we previously realized. Born to Run will be
revelatory for anyone who has ever enjoyed Bruce Springsteen, but
this book is much more than a legendary rock star's memoir. This is
a book for workers and dreamers, parents and children, lovers and
loners, artists, freaks, or anyone who has ever wanted to be
baptized in the holy river of rock and roll. Rarely has a performer
told his own story with such force and sweep. Like many of his
songs ("Thunder Road," "Badlands," "Darkness on the Edge of Town,"
"The River," "Born in the U.S.A.," "The Rising," and "The Ghost of
Tom Joad," to name just a few), Bruce Springsteen's autobiography
is written with the lyricism of a singular songwriter and the
wisdom of a man who has thought deeply about his experiences.
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